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git checkout exit value and post-commit hooks

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APAndreas Politz <politza@hochschule-trier.de>
Date
Mar 14, 2017, 01:58 UTC
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Hi,

the exit value of a `git checkout' seems to depend on the exit values of the hooks it runs. This breaks for example `git bisect', as seen in the following example.

$ mkdir gitbug $ cd gitbug $ git init $ ln -s /bin/false .git/hooks/post-commit $ git bisect start $ git bisect reset fatal: invalid reference: master Could not check out original HEAD 'master'. Try 'git bisect reset <commit>'.

-ap
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